"sleep tight"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Feb 14 21:21:43 UTC 2013


Fast  "asleep."

JL

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> > don't let the bedbugs bite
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> What?! You're a Texan and you don't say,
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> "… wake up with a good appetite"
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> ? :-)
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